Hexie Farm (蟹农场): The Spell of Xixiphus

For his latest contribution to the Hexie Farm CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab depicts Xi Jinping as the belabored Sisyphus from Greek legend, who was punished for his hubris by repeatedly trying in vain to push a boulder up a mountain, only to have it roll back down to the bottom each time. In Hexie Farm’s rendering, “Xixiphus” is pushing the promises of reform up to the summit, the “rejuvenation of the nation,” but they have yet to be realized.